Bó Almqvist and Pádraig O'Healaí (eds)

Severely 'edited' by the cultural powers that formed and built the new Irish State, Peig was a compulsory text on the Irish Leaving Certificate for generations of schoolgoers. But there was a lot more to Peig than tales of poverty and hardship - in this selection of previously unpublished stories, a new, earthier, funnier and more dramatic storyteller emerges. Based on RTÉ, UCD and BBC archives, and translated by UCD's Bó Almqvist and Pádraig O'Healaí, Ireland's leading experts on Peig, the book includes CDs with archived recordings of Peig telling these stories, and is published in a dual-language edition.

Praise for Peig Sayers: Labharfad le Cách:

'The objectives of this book and accompanying compact discs...are to make Peig Sayers's radio recordings available to the general public, to further understanding of Sayers as a traditional storyteller and to foreground the importance of the early radio recordings in the context of the Irish folklore collection in general. The book succeeds admirably on all these counts.' Máirín Nic Eoin, The Irish Times

ISBN: 9781848400085; Trade HB; 300 pp; October 2009